Dead body found in Salfit, Palestinian police say

SALFIT (Ma’an) -- A dead body was found in the town of Kafr al-Dik in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit on Saturday, according to Palestinian police.

Palestinian police spokesperson Luay Irzeiqat said that police and the public prosecution opened an investigation into the incident.

An anonymous police source in Salfit told Ma’an that after receiving a tip, police rushed to scene to find the body of a man in his fifties, and that initial investigations indicated the man had been dead for days.